Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 - 490 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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Page 109
... villages in the mountains . And there were omens : " My people told me they heard an owl on my inn , and this is a ... village , together with the English consul and some other members of the community , in order to escape " God's awful ...
... villages in the mountains . And there were omens : " My people told me they heard an owl on my inn , and this is a ... village , together with the English consul and some other members of the community , in order to escape " God's awful ...
Page 111
... villages and the city extended the range of the epidemic , for as Orlyk himself noted " people from here incessantly go to the city to sell their wares , and another village , very close by , is also infected . " There were several ...
... villages and the city extended the range of the epidemic , for as Orlyk himself noted " people from here incessantly go to the city to sell their wares , and another village , very close by , is also infected . " There were several ...
Page 336
... villages we wanted to settle down ... We were sent to a village where we really didn't want to go . However we had no choice . " 5 Refugees ended up in every part of the country . But the departing Muslims had left properties in ...
... villages we wanted to settle down ... We were sent to a village where we really didn't want to go . However we had no choice . " 5 Refugees ended up in every part of the country . But the departing Muslims had left properties in ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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